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  Jack Irons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Irons (born July 18, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a drummer who has played for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redd Kross, Raging Slab, Pearl Jam and Eleven.
Jack was a founding member of, and the original drummer for, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Jack Irons was asked to join Pearl Jam when they were first forming and still looking for a singer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Irons   (400 words)

  
 Lukin : Drummer History - Jack Irons
Irons brings a very different style to Pearl Jam which can be heard on the No Code and Yield albums.
Jack's first real show was on January 8, 1995 (he actually played at the two 1994 Bridge School shows but with percussion instruments and not a drum set).
Jack skipped touring in the second half of 1998 due to "health problems" and was replaced by Matt Cameron.
www.lukin.com /Information/dhirons.html   (214 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Irons explained to Christian that either he or one of the women in his office would contact her periodically to inform her of her status in the Network.
Irons also claims that even if the proper standard is "willfully," he did not act willfully because he did not know or have reason to believe that the Network was an investment contract and, therefore, a security within the purview of the Securities Act of Nebraska.
Irons argues that the positions on the Network cannot be classified as investment contracts because each participant was required to recruit others and that, therefore, the expectation of profits would not be derived from the managerial efforts of others.
www.nol.org /home/ncpa/ctopinio/S96-1120.htm   (3936 words)

  
 Clay Center Dispatch
Irons, 50, who is also looking at lots in Wakefield, said he spent spent 27 months in a federal minimum security prison in South Dakota from 1995 to 1997 after having been convicted on a charge of mail fraud and a spearate charge of selling unsecured securities.
Irons told the audience that, while he doesn't agree that he had knowingly broken any laws, he had "made some bad decisions along the way" that he wasn't proud of.
Irons said the charges were politically motivated because he was considering a run for governor of Nebraska and he cited difficulties involved in the year-long negotiations with the city of Lincoln over the Centrum building, a $4 million building he purchased for $400,000 and that the city wanted.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15170730&BRD=1160&PAG=461&dept_id=190958&rfi=6   (1204 words)

  
 CD Baby: JACK IRONS: Attention Dimension
Irons takes a Pink Floyd classic ('Shine On You Crazy Diamond') and truly puts his own imprint on the tune with tribal percussion and the tender but menacing vocal courtesy of his friend Eddie Vedder.
Irons passed their demo on to his good friend Vedder and that became the beginnings of Pearl Jam.
Jack Irons' status as an alternative rock prime mover can't be argued.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/jackirons   (1367 words)

  
 After music hiatus, Jack Irons breaches the scene - Lifestyle
Upon first putting Jack Irons' Attention Dimension into a computer drive to copy it into iTunes, the album's genre designation shows up not as "Rock" or "Jazz," but as "Unclassifiable." This is to be expected from Irons, the eccentric and brilliant drummer who is also an important man in music history.
Irons wrote a bizarre Pearl Jam B-side called "Whale Song," in which he sang, A whale's heart is as big as a car / A whaler's thoughts must be smudged by the dark, over a background of whale calls.
Irons plays many instruments on Dimension, but his drumming is the primary focus of this first-ever whale concept album.
www.dailytrojan.com /news/2004/09/08/Lifestyle/After.Music.Hiatus.Jack.Irons.Breaches.The.Scene-712384.shtml   (680 words)

  
 Jack Irons - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Born on July 18, 1962, Irons was raised in Los Angeles, and it was while as a student at Fairfax High School that he befriended Hillel Slovak, Anthony Kiedis, and Michael Balzary.
Irons joined up once more with the former leader of What Is This?, singer/guitarist Alain Johannes (plus keyboardist Natasha Shneider), to form a new group, Eleven.
Although Pearl Jam asked Irons to join up with them as well, he remained loyal to Eleven, and drummed on such subsequent overlooked albums as 1991's Awake in a Dream, 1993's self-titled release, and 1995's Thunk.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,447597,00.html   (767 words)

  
 Jack Irons MP3 Downloads - Jack Irons Music Downloads - Jack Irons Music Videos
Drummer Jack Irons has played with some of rock's biggest names over the years, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, and Neil Young.
Soonafter, Irons and Slovak (who played guitar) formed a band called Anthym, while the pair eventually began to jam with Kiedis on vocals and Balzary on bass (the later of which had adopted the nickname Flea).
Although the group caused a major stir in the overcrowded L.A. music scene with their outrageous and high energy stage show, Irons and Slovak refused to take the group seriously, as they jumped ship (on the eve of the Peppers signing a record contract) to record with another local group, What Is This?.
www.mp3.com /jack-irons/artists/71572/biography.html   (681 words)

  
 The Currents Will Shift :: A Pearl Jam Fanzine | Group Interviews | 1998 - This Inner Life: Interview with Jack Irons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When Jack Irons was twenty-five, he didn't think he'd make it to thirty-five.
On Yield, the band's new disc, Irons' drums at time evoke a musical quality, as if the drummer, himself, is singing for the first time.
Jack Irons: I didn't exactly know what I was stepping into because I had no preparation for it.
www.currentswillshift.net /94.310.0.0.1.0.shtml   (3875 words)

  
 HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM | REVIEWS | Jack Irons - Attention Dimension album review
Jack Irons was the drummer in Pearl Jam for a good bit of their explosive career, and has also done time with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eleven, and even Les Claypool (who also makes an appearance on this recording).
This makes for what seems to be a new age record, although with Irons' heavy drumming, the effect is much more tribal than your run of the mill easy listening.
Probably best suited for listening by those aging boomers who still are young enough at heart to want to rock a bit, but are no longer capable of listening to the current stream of hard rock artists.
www.hybridmagazine.com /reviews/0904/jackirons.shtml   (537 words)

  
 Jack Irons Pink Floyd cover version of Shine On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Former Red Hot Chili Pepper drummer Jack Irons will include his version of Pink Floyd's classic "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" on his next album.
Irons, pictured to the right, was a founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and has drummed with many other bands and performers, including Pearl Jam and Neil Young.
He is a surfing buddy of Eddie Vedder, and his first tattoo was of a whale and dolphin, due to his love of the ocean.
www.brain-damage.co.uk /news/0407081.html   (246 words)

  
 Hillel Slovak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It was at this point that Hillel Slovak and his childhood buddy Jack Irons decided to continue their prior commitment in their former band, WHAT IS THIS?, while Flea and Anthony Kiedis recruited Jack Sherman (guitar) and Cliff Martinez (drums).
In 1986 Cliff Martinez was replaced by Jack Irons, reuniting the original band line-up.
It was as that time that Jack Irons left the band, unable to continue with a constant reminder of such an intense loss.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Alley/1087/slovak.html   (436 words)

  
 The Currents Will Shift :: A Pearl Jam Fanzine | info | Jack Irons and Pearl Jam: Irons Travels To A New ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If it weren't for Jack Irons, two pillars of alternative rock may have never even gotten out of their rehearsal spaces.
Irons felt he had to immediately make a choice: his health or his band, and with a major North American tour looming, opted to leave Pearl Jam outright.
On Aug. 17, Irons will release his first solo album, "Attention Dimension," an 11-song, hour-plus opus that literally amounted to a musical therapy session spread out over years of work.
www.currentswillshift.net /62.369.0.0.1.0.shtml   (2340 words)

  
 JACK IRONS - ATTENTION DIMENSION - tastes like chicken
Speaking of which, the album gets even stranger with Irons' cover of Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", with guest vocals from Pearl Jam frontman and Irons' longtime friend, Eddie Vedder.
Irons may be a former member of those other, more well known bands, but he's onto his own thing here.
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www.tlchicken.com /view_story.php?ARTid=2706   (291 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of In the Days of Poor Richard, by Irving Bacheller
Jack Irons was a son of the much respected John Irons from New Hampshire who, in the fertile valley where he had settled some years before, was breeding horses for the army and sending them down to Sir William Johnson.
Jack minded not the hardness of the floor, but there was much drinking and arguing and expounding of the common law in the forward end of the cabin, which often interrupted his slumbers.
Jack was sick for a number of days after the voyage began but Solomon, who was up and about and cheerful in the roughest weather, having spent a part of his youth at sea, took care of his young friend.
ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/6/0/15608/15608-h/15608-h.htm   (22209 words)

  
 StarPolish: Advice, Artists, CDs, Rewards & Grants, Resources, and Current Issues for Aspiring Musicians, Bands and ...
Jack Irons is an extraordinarily talented, veteran rock drummer who may be as well known for the circumstances that forced him off the drum throne of superstar rock bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam as he is for having played drums in those bands in the first place.
IRONS: Well, I believed it [was possible to get better.] The way was maybe not what I originally thought it was, but I was more of a manic character than a depressed person.
IRONS: I do think that there was a fine line between creating this music and working through anxieties or transferring from anxiety to this.
www.starpolish.com /features/article.asp?ID=719   (4041 words)

  
 Pink Floyd News - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Tours, Albums, info
Irons and Slovak played with both bands for a time, and when each band was offered record deals their loyalty and history with Johannes guided them in their decision to choose What Is This.
Irons left the band knowing his illness would not permit him to give the intensity the up and coming band needed.
The recording of and subsequent tour around Strummer’s Earthquake Weather had a profound effect – Irons met his wife in San Francisco, and it was at the San Diego show that he met a guy named Eddie Vedder.
www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk /news/?y=04&id=1015   (925 words)

  
 Jack Irons to release solo album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Irons was an original member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, forming the band with fellow Fairfax High School students Hillel Slovak, Anthony Kiedis, and Michael Balzary (Flea).
Irons was invited to join Pearl Jam at that point but stayed with Eleven.
Years later the invitation arose again and Irons became Pearl Jam's drummer between 1986 and 1988 for the albums 'Merkinball', Neil Young's 'Mirrorball', 'No Code' and 'Yield', as well as extensive touring.
www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/aug04/20040802_jackirons.html   (284 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Jack Irons - Attention Dimension
Irons' previous work as a former drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam does nothing to prepare the listener for Attention Dimension.
The album starts off with "Jackie Groove," a jazzy little number that features flute and soprano saxophone played by Irons' partner in crime, Alain Johannes, who plays on most of the tracks, co-wrote a couple of songs and was involved in the mixing and engineering.
Then we move into an interesting percussion piece, "Suluhiana," which means "make peace." It is one of the few tracks with vocals, but that doesn't mean it has lyrics except for when the title can be made out.
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/12/17/145852.php   (891 words)

  
 Pearl Jam - Fanviews of An Evening With Pearl Jam Acoustic and Then Some
Then the rest of the band came out and Jack stayed on to play guitar and backup vocals on Better Man. The tag was a Ramones song, 'I wanna be your boyfriend'.
Jack Irons drumming with his old band mates was exceptional.
I could name a dozen moments from last night that could be labeled as the best moment but there is no way to rate seeing Chris Cornell play acoustic Audioslave songs, against Jack Irons and Matt Cameron playing on the same kit at the same time.
www.sonymusic.com /artists/PearlJam/fanscene/2003/1028sb1.html   (1788 words)

  
 GolfDigest.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jack Nicklaus is the finest long-iron player I have ever seen.
Jack says his mechanical keys for long irons are to finish his backswing, stay down on the ball and fully release the club.
He said at our clinic that most people are OK with their short irons but feel uncomfortable with long irons--so they panic and change their swings.
www.golfdigest.com /instruction/index.ssf?/instruction/watsons_6nrey0hc.html   (247 words)

  
 Jack Irons - Attention Dimension CD Review
This is a nice get together for Claypool, Vedder and Irons, as Irons plays only drums on the track, letting others work their own particular mojo.
Overall, the song leaves a bit to be desired as a re-tuning of the Pink Floyd classic.
Fortunately, what could have been a disaster turns out remarkably well and Irons succeeds in having a debut album that truly makes a mark in terms of style and sheer determination.
www.avrev.com /music/revs/jackirons.shtml   (688 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Attention Dimension [Import]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jack Irons could be called a legend of the drums having played with bands such as Pearl Jam and of course was one of the founders of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Now having conquered crippling anxiety disorders that forced him off the drum throne of these superstar rock bands Jack Irons is back with his first solo album, Attention Dimension.
It is clear that Jack Irons is trying to reintroduce himself into the world of rock.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002VGPV0   (378 words)

  
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I've since come to realise that jack irons does not stink.
jack is definitely an above average drummer, who has worked through hardship to make music that he loves.
As for comparisons to Jack Irons, I'd never seen PJ live before.
web.stargate.net /soundgarden/archive/1998/09/03   (805 words)

  
 A Bear of a club: Nicklaus Golf forges forward - PGATOUR.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The 2001 catalog of woods and irons depicts a lineup of clubs that were crafted with numerous high-tech, game-enhancing factors.
The VCG name represents the Variable Center of Gravity process whereby weight is shifted away from the micro-thin clubface and the center of gravity is progressively moved from the low heel area on long irons to a higher position toward the toe on short irons.
More like a blade iron, these clubs have a slight cavity back, thin topline and a satin finish, and should appeal to the more advanced player.
www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,3650576,00.html   (1161 words)

  
 eBay - golf jack nicklaus ..., Golf, Fan Apparel Souvenirs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jack Nicklaus signed golf ball autographed golf ball
Jack Nicklaus Golf - NES Game Cartridge + instructions
JACK NICKLAUS £5 OPEN MINT GOLF NOTE Inc Rare 2005 DVD
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 Xtreme Musician: Jack Irons
After his stint with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and before he joined Pearl Jam, Jack was in a band called Eleven with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider.
Alain and Jack (who have been friends since age 14) were in a band called What Is This?
During the third, Jack left to join Pearl Jam (the album was completed with Matt Cameron sitting in on drums).
www.xtrememusician.com /info/artists/profiles/5918.html   (147 words)

  
 Irons Drafts Pearl Jam Pals For Solo Debut
Irons left Pearl Jam for health reasons in early 1998, following the release of the album "Yield" and an Australian tour.
Irons is abetted throughout "Attention Dimension" by his Eleven colleague Alain Johannes, who plays an array of instruments on seven tracks.
Irons joined Pearl Jam for two songs during an all-star concert last October in Santa Barbara, Calif. It was just the second time he had played with the group since he left.
www.billboard.com /bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000550563   (570 words)

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